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Takehiro Fukushima1, Satoshi Sunada, Takahisa Harayama
1Department of Information and Communication Engineering, Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Okayama, Japan. fuku@c.oka‐pu.ac.jp
Abstract:
We investigated the lasing modes of quasi-stadium laser diodes that have confocal cavity geometries, with stripe electrode contacts formed either along the cavity axis or a diamond-shaped trajectory. It was clearly demonstrated that by using narrow electrode contact patterns of 2 μm width, the lowest-order axial and ring modes were excited selectively. On the other hand, the second-lowest-order axial and ring modes were excited by using broad electrode patterns of 14 μm width. Experimentally obtained far-field patterns for lasers with broad and narrow electrode contact patterns agree very well with the simulation results obtained using an extended Fox-Li mode calculation method.
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